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Archive for the ‘Sagittarius A*’ Category

Near infrared flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of near infrared polarimetry

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4659

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Witzel, G. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Giessuebel, R. Schoedel R. and Bremer, M. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Nishiyama, S. and Sabha, N. and Straubmeier, C. and Zensus, A.
26 pages, 38 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4960

by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures

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Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

Monday, October 26th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4502

by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3260

by Lu, Youjun and Zhang, Fupeng and Yu, Qingjuan
7 pages, 5 figures

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The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3069

by Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. and Fritz, T. K. and Bartko, H. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Pfuhl, O. and Ott, T. and Genzel, R.
submitted to ApJL

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Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0399

by Trap, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Terrier, R. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Pantin, E. and Lagage, P. O. and Ferrando, P. and Belanger, G. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Melia, F.
30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ASR

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The Distribution of Stars and Stellar Remnants at the Galactic Center

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1318

by Merritt, David
22 pages, 18 figures

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Radial Distribution of X-ray Point Sources near the Galactic Center

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

arXiv:0908.4306

by Hong, Jaesub and Berg, Maureen van den and Grindlay, Jonathan E. and Laycock, Silas
17 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1100

by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0117

by Cadez, A. and Kostic, U. and Calvani, M.
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk

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Polarized Emission of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5463

by Huang, Lei and Liu, Siming and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cai, Mike J. and Li, Hui and Fryer, Christopher L.
27 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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Near-infrared Polarimetry of flares from Sgr A* with Subaru/CIAO

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5466

by Nishiyama, Shogo and Tamura, Motohide and Hatano, Hirofumi and Nagata, Tetsuya and Kudo, Tomoyuki and Ishii, Miki and Schödel, Rainer and Eckart, Andreas
14 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. For higher resolution, see http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shogo/paper/ApJ/SgrAS08/09NishiyamaSgrASNIRPol.pdf

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Oscillation Phenomena in the disk around the massive black hole Sagittarius A*

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5511

by Miyoshi, M. and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Oyama, T. and Takahashi, R. and Kato, Y.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MN Letter

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Measuring spin of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre — Implications for a unique spin

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5423

by Kato, Y. and Miyoshi, M. and Takahashi, R. and Negoro, H. and Matsumoto, R.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS LETTER

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Nonthermal transient phenomena around rotating black holes

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

arXiv:0905.3367

by van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Invited review, in Orleans School On The Sciences Of The Universe: Mass Motion (Springer-Verlag), to appear

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Images of the radiatively inefficient accretion flow surrounding a Kerr black hole: application in Sgr A*

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.4090

by Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu and Huang, Lei and Shen, Zhi-Qiang
13 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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Enhanced tidal disruption rates from massive black hole binaries

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.4481

by Chen, X. and Madau, P. and Sesana, A. and Liu, F. K.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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